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Izzy is smiling. This is a constant fact, a basic truth of the universe. The sun is warm, snow is cold, and Izzy is smiling. But there's a truth behind that cheerful mask. She smiles because she has to, or so she's sure.
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Who the heck is that?
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Gothic Izzy. Look at her cutie mark.
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I thought it was Gothic Pinkie. Just kidding. I know it was Izzy but it doesn't suit her very will with the moody personality of hers.
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The underlined part appears twice though written differently.
Other than that, this was great and it's definitely getting a place in my favourites.
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Oops! All the black sparkles are creating more typos. This must be fixed!
A gothic Izzy comes to town 0_0 interesting so far. I wonder if Gothic Izzy going to go emo. 0_0
It's about time MLP tackles being manic-depressive.
This is very good. I'm giving you six stars for doing a good job. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The subject matter in this story is very weird. But it's an interesting kind of weird, and I'm intrigued by the mystery.
Speaking of mystery, I was originally going to wait for a second chapter and more answers to comment, but then I saw that the next chapter would be next month. I'm content to wait that long for the next installment, but I'll go ahead and post my thoughts now.
This story is very Kafkaesque. Izzy finds herself going from in character to out of character very quickly, and the resulting physical and mental transformations leave her baffled and distraught. It has, especially from her difficult attempts to explain what happen, a very strong vibe of "I just woke up as a cockroach and I don't know why."
That being said, I've never yet sat down to read The Metamorphosis, and know about it only through cultural osmosis, so I'll move onto some smaller thoughts before I compare the story to tropes I'm more familiar with.
I feel the most sorry for Posey. She gave Izzy a sincere hug and tried to reach out to Izzy more than ever, but she had the misfortune of doing it on the one day Izzy wasn't quite herself.
Zipp trying to x-ray birds to try and find out what's wrong with Izzy is quite hilarious to me. But at the same time it's a bit fitting, since crows and ravens are associated with the gothic subculture.
Izzy's interactions with Sunny and Zipp are fascinating because they show how bizarre the sudden tonal dissonance is. Sunny and Zipp are in character and still feel like children's show archetypes while Izzy is almost a different person, and feels like an escapee from something skewing older. It's almost as if someone from a daytime soap opera accidentally walked out of their time slot to wind up in Sesame Street and talk to Bert and Ernie.
Before I move on, I should also note that the level of ambiguity at this point is also interesting. Izzy has largely lost her grip on what is true and real, and so that is also true for the reader in a way, who isn't sure, at this point, if Izzy was somehow cursed into becoming a goth by meeting Orchid, or if Izzy is simply a very, very easily influenced person, and it's all a placebo effect.
The main reason that the story interests me is that it's essentially a werewolf story. The initial turning is there, the realization of not being quite oneself anymore, and being compelled to do things one would never do, is there, the self imprisonment trope is there, and even the "find the one who turned me" trope is there.
Even Izzy's physical transformation feels very lycanthropic, especially when she finds herself "garbed like a true goth" and finally locked into her new form and mindset.
In any case, I look forward to Izzy finding Orchid and the two of them sharing thoughts now that Izzy has seemingly been "assimilated." I'll be curious to eventually find out if Orchid lives in Bridlewood, or in some sort of goth pony commune.
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Perhaps interesting, from the way you phrase it, but the commissioner wanted a magic mirror to be there to force all the issues. I thought why use a magic device when people are complicated and they can fall apart all on their own without magic devices forcing the issue. Though now I wonder how wise that was?
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My Little Pony has a long history with magic mirrors, but I feel replacing it with a person was the right call. A mirror would have been an object, in the strictest sense. Not even a puppet buddy like Senor Butterscotch. Izzy would not have been able to try and form an emotional bond with a mirror.
The things that appeals to me most about the story is Izzy having her life dramatically changed by a chance encounter with another person. Even though it will be another month before the next chapter, I'm excited for whenever Izzy is able to meet Orchid again.
Huh, so it looks actually has some genuine advice. I honestly wasn’t expecting that…
Very interesting 2nd chapter. I wonder, did this bar always exist in Maritime Bay, or was it founded after the unicorns arrived?
I think this should be Maritime Bay friends.
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Oops... G4sm.